Found on FB, no reference to Christianity:
“When the Titanic sank, it carried millionaire John Jacob Astor IV.
The money in his bank account was enough to build 30 Titanics. However, faced with mortal danger, he chose what he deemed morally right and gave up his spot in a lifeboat to save two frightened children.
Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said:
"I will never enter a lifeboat before other men."
His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband.
These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.”
credit: Paulyn Pickle
John 15:13
https://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm
12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14You are My friends if you do what I command you.…
Not just about the Titanic, the Astors and Straus’s, this topic is about examples of Christian love and sacrifice, including forgiveness, when it occurs without outward evidence of stated and conscious Christian conversion. Incidents like these happen, i always understand them to represent how God and the Holy Spirit are not confined to human understanding and reasoning, there is more.
John 21:25
https://biblehub.com/john/21-25.htm
24This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who has written them down.
And we know that his testimony is true.
25 There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.
It doesn’t matter what “we” think. What matters is God’s judgment.